Hagner v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
285 U.S. 427 · 1932
Citation profile
1,222 federal appellate · 153 district · 194 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,400 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Berger v. United States (1935), Hamling v. United States (1974)
1,222 federal appellate · 153 district · 194 state decisions — followed in 32 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Appellate journey
reviewedHagner v. United States (from District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Rosen v. United States · Cochran v. United States · Dunbar v. United States · Rosenthal v. Walker
Cited together with United States v. Debrow · Russell v. United States · Cochran v. United States · Wong Tai v. United States · Glasser v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 2,400 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The true test of the sufficiency of an indictment is not whether it could have been made more definite and certain, but whether it contains the elements of the offense intended to be charged, ‘and sufficiently apprises the defendant of what he must be prepared to meet, and, in case any other proceedings are taken against him for a similar offense, whether the record shows with accuracy to what extent he may plead a former acquittal or conviction.’ ””
58 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that proof that a letter properly directed was placed in a post office creates a presumption that it reached its destination in usual time and was actually received by the person to whom it was addressed.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Upon a proceeding after verdict at least, no prejudice being shown, it is enough that the necessary facts appear in any form, or by fair construction can be found within the terms of the indictment.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.